Rok 1888 – w ćwierćwiecze powstania, w wigilię nowego?
Year 1888 – A Quarter-Century Anniversary of the Uprising, on the Eve of a New One?

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of Adam Asnyka’s poem about the 25th anniversary of the 1863 uprising, as well as a specific attempt to place it in the context of current political events concurrent with the anniversary – the turbulent political mood of the late 1880s (tensions between Russia and Germany with the probable threat of the escalation of the conflict and the attitudes (reactions) of Poles accompanying them, which have been widely recorded and commented on in newspapers all over Europe. The author, referring to the abundant newspaper material (eg. “Gazeta Polska,” “Kurier Poznański,” “Nowa Reforma,” “Czas”), on the one hand, traces and reconstructs mechanisms of generating and reproducing so-called “insurgent rumors” in magazines and inciting the insurgency zeal, while on the other hand, he advocates the strategies of joint development of a single, unified, beyond-partitional political advocacy characterized by an attitude of legality and neutrality.

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